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Fathers4Justice Activists Atop Crane In Ohio

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:36:53 -0000

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Donald Tenn is a man of conviction. Since the day I met him, one thing, and one thing alone has guided his every move. Tenn is a Daddy who misses and worries about his daughter Madison every moment of every day.

Madison and Tenn are victims of Madisonâs mother Shannon and the disaster called the family court system. Shannon illegally abducted Madison from California to Illinois. When she learned the law would make her return Madison, she immediately filed false allegations of domestic violence against Tenn. As I described here and here, not only has Madisonâs mother broken the law, sheâs being rewarded for her actions.

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Holstein on CNN: âIron Fist Collection Policies Turn Fathers into Fugitivesâ

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:30:00 -0000

A nation of fugitives? That is what our corrupt legislature is setting up with their negligent legislating.

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Holstein on CNN: âIron Fist Collection Policies Turn Fathers into Fugitivesâ
2008-09-13 at 11:03 am Â· Filed under blog

"The child support system is asking very poor people -- the fathers -- to support other very poor people --the mother and child. This has not worked and will not work, because the money just doesnât exist.

New Child Support Download

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000

Please update your Child Support Worksheets.

The Child Support laws have changed. The new law goes into effect August 15th, 2008. Please download the new Child Support Worksheet. The old worksheet is no longer valid.

VICTORY for parents in Florida !

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:36:14 -0000

Florida passes a new shared parenting law.

Link to the bill

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Victory for fathers' rights in divorces

Aug. 1, 2008 By Jenny Andreasson
The Voice

Mike Weller refuses to be reduced to a "weekend dad" after his divorce, and a recent change in the law is likely to bolster his push to get equal custody of his sons.

A bill approved May 28 by Gov. Charlie Crist evens out the parental playing field, which has traditionally handed mothers primary custody in a divorce, leaving fathers with little say.

"Every other weekend â that's how often you see a friend," said Weller, a Winter Springs business owner whose wife filed for divorce July 7. "When the law is dictating that one
parent is better than the other, the kids see that."

Site Upgrade Installed - Fingers crossed

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:46:07 -0000

Okay. The site upgrade is installed and the site is back up.

Please notify me of any issues.

Nick
President@ladads.org

New Child Support Spreadsheet coming soon

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:39:02 -0000

I am working on the new child support Excel Spreadsheet for the laws that take effect August 15th, 2008.

Hopefully I will the first draft posted later this week.

Site upgrade

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:27:02 -0000

I will be updating the site during the next week. There may be some brief outages while that is being done.

We will be going to the latest version of XOOPS. The 2.3.0 version is finally out of beta release.

I have already updated the PHP software from version 4.3.11 to version 5.2.5

Some of our users are experiencing the 'white screen of death' and are being locked out of the site. If this happens to you, please send me an email at president@ladads.org so that I can release you from the computer ban list.

Hopefully the new upgrade should fix this issue.

UNETHICAL LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:30:13 -0000

Our Legislature has NO ethics.

They certainly we willing to be 'brave' to pass legislation helping out their own self-interests, but where were they when it came to doing their duty and serving the interests of their constituents?

So they haven't had a pay raise in decades, big deal.

HB494 by Hines updated the Child Support tables per the 4 year review. Unfortunately, the major proposed reform by the Child Support Review committee was left on the House committee room floor.

As passed, the bill is unconscionable and unconstitutional.

The Louisiana Child Support Tables have an amount built into them to ensure that the paying parent has enough money to live on at the Federal Poverty Level. This amount is called the "Self Support Reserve".

Well, this amount has not been updated since 1991!

The amount of the Self Support Reserve is $551/month of GROSS income.

When the law was first passed, this amount was the Federal Poverty Level for a single person in 1991.

Every 4 years, the economists have proposed that this amount be increased. And every 4 years, the legislature chickens out.

This year, somebody arm twisted the economist and got her to renounce her own proposal in the house floor. This was to give them 'cover'. So once again the child support tables in the lower income range remain unchanged.

This puts our child support collection people and our judges in a bad position.

The child support people are obligated to try to collect money in violation of federal laws. The judges are obligated to convict them as felons for being poor and unable to pay.

The SSR number is now only about 64% of Federal Poverty Level for a single person.

But wait, it gets worse.

Because the "Self Support Reserve" is built into the table. And because the judges are required to add on 'extra-ordinary expenses' for health insurance and day care, the SSR number is easily violated. A careless or corrupt court can easily order child support amounts that consume an entire parents income.

To further compound matters, our legislature also passed HB339. This bill allows 'special expenses' to be added on to the child support order for social events.

These extra expenses are poorly defined and have no limits placed on them. There is no cap on the maximum amount of a persons income that can be ordered.

In essence, a both parents right to life are in danger every time they go before a custody judge in this state.

Because any careless application of these egregious, unconscionable, unconstitutional, unethical, amoral laws must be immediately obeyed or that person becomes a felon.

WE NEED REFORM IN THIS STATE.

Angry at the corrupt legislature?

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:42:25 -0000

Angry about the self-serving legislators giving themselves a pay raise and shafting the non-custodial parents?

Call and ask Jindal to VETO the bad bills.

Please post any links you find to new sites seeking a recall or going against the recall.

Here are the first two I have found:

LegeWatch

Recall Pay Raise Tucker

Baskerville interview on the Sandy Rios Show

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:10:00 -0000

A new message from Stephen Baskerville

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My interview on the Sandy Rios Show is now available online:

http://www.culturecampaign.com/culturecorner.aspx

Sandy Rios is former president of the huge and influential Concerned Women for America. You can hear in the interview that she is not only very sympathetic but highly knowledgeable, having had two friends that went through the family court wringer. This could be a significant breakthrough. The number of prominent public personalities who are aware of the reign of terror in family court continues to grow.

Once again, if you have media contacts, I would be grateful for any opportunities to get on the air. Thanks to all who have helped so far.

Taken Into Custody is now up to 49 reviews on Amazon -- all of them 5 stars.

Stephen